Broom and towel holder.



G. WLHALLEY.

BROOM AND TOWEL HULDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-24.1914.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Ina-@713 GEORGE W. HALLEY, OF NEVADA, IOWA.

BROOM AND TOWEL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Application filed February 24, 1914. Serial No. 820,413.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HALLEY, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Nevada, Story county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Broom and Towel Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for a broom holder.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for carrying or supporting towels on a broom holder.

A further object of this invention is to prolyide a combined broom-holder and towel rac My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of one form of my improved device, dotted lines indicating a broom mounted therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same device. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a modified form of my device showing towel-supporting bars suspended beneath the broom holder and carried thereby.

In the construction of the device as shown the broom-holder is formed of a single length of wire by bending and twisting. An eye or loop 10 is formed at the center and is adapted to engage a suitable support, such as a nail or hook, and suspend the entire device. A stem 11 is formed by twisting body portions of the wire together on opposite sides and below the eye 10. The stem 11 forks below the twisted portion and the wire curves outward and upward from the lower ends of the arms of the stem and forms seats side by side adapted to receive, engage and support the shoulders of a broom, one of which seats is shown in Fig. 2 at 12. The seats 12 are spaced to receive the handle and collar of a broom between them. Inverted U-shaped hooks 13, 14: are formed in the wire integral with the seats 12 and extend upward and outward in a Copies of this patent may be obtained. for

common plane at an oblique angle to the plane of the stem 11, and are adapted to engage the front face of a broom and retain it in contact with said stem. Upturned hooks 15, 16 are formed in the wire and constitute the terminals thereof. The hooks 15, 16 may extend laterally of and forwardly relatlve to the terminals of the hooks 13, 14: and are adapted to support towels, clothing and other articles.

In Fig. 3 the device is made of a longer portion of wire, being extended downwardly from the hooks 15, 16, in spaced relations, as counterpart hangers 17 18. The hangers 17, 18 are formed with spaced eyes 19, 20 adapted to receive and support horizontal bars, racks or rods 21, 22, preferably made of wood, on which towels and other articles may be hung. The bars 21, 22 also serve the useful purpose of holding the handle of the broom away from the wall against which the holder is mounted. The hangers 17 18 preferably terminate in hooks 23, 24.

I claim as my invention 1. A broom-holder comprising a twisted stem having an eye at one end and diverging arms at the opposite end, said arms terminating in forwardly-curved seats, upwardly and outwardly extending hooks, of inverted U-shape, integral with the seats and arranged oblique to the stem, and supporting hooks on the terminals of the first hooks.

2. A broom-holder comprising a stem having an eye at one end and diverging arms at the opposite end, said arms terminating in forwardly-curved seats, upwardly and outwardly extending hooks, of inverted U- shape, integral with the seats and arranged oblique to the stem, supporting hooks on the terminals of the first hooks, and transverse bars carried by the terminal hooks and adapted to engage the handle of a broom in said seats.

Signed by me at Nevada, Iowa this eighteenth day of February, 1914.

GEORGE W. I-IALLEY.

Witnesses:

FEED E. HANSEN, S. C. SWEET.

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